Don your apron and add more tactile touches to your kitchen with textile designer Tara Reed's new Comforts of Home collection for Cloud9 Fabrics
Designer: JESS ENTWISTLE Styling: LISA JONES Photography: KADEN GARDENER
APRON
It's entirely possible to coordinate your kitchen pinny with your outfit – simply make your own! Alternatively, this easy (pocket-included) pattern makes up an excellent gift for your favourite host.
OVEN GLOVE
Try your hand at light quilting with this padded pot holder mitt – it's sure to brighten kitchen counters and cupboards. As stylish and it is useful, you'll be wanting to make more than one!
TOTE BAG
Make the weekly grocery run immensely more fun with the addition of a snazzy new shopper. With room to spare, this oversized tote bag is an excellent introduction to nailing inner linings.
PLANT POT COVER
Living kitchen herbs get a home all of their own with these colourful fabric jackets. Eye-catching enough that you'll remember to water them and be reminded to use them more frequently when cooking!
TEA TOWELS
Almost too pretty to use, right? This set of three contrasting cotton tea towels (with handy little hanging tabs sewn into the seams) will make an extra thoughtful me-made house-warming gift.
LUNCH BAG
Be the envy of the office with a vibrantly patterned, roll-down fabric lunchbag. Easy to wash, easy to secure – it's a winner over the plastic variety any day. Size-up the pattern to make bigger ones for picnics, too.
LUNCH BAG
YOU WILL NEED
■ Fabric A: 75x50cm – Outer
■ Fabric B: 75x50cm– Lining
■ Vlieseline Thermolam: 75x50cm
■ Hook and Loop tape, 18mm wide:
15cm
■ Matching sewing thread
■ Erasable fabric marker
■ Basic sewing kit
FABRICS USED
■ The fabrics used are from the Comforts of Home collection by Tara Reed for Cloud9 Fabrics. For stockists visit: cloud9fabrics.com
■ 227221 Parakeets
■ 227223 Canning
■ Vlieseline products supplied by vlieseline.com
NOTES
■ Use a 1cm seam allowance.
■ Use a walking foot if you have one.
CUTTING OUT
Step one From Fabric A cut: Outer: two 35x42cm Step two From Fabric B cut: Lining: two 35x42cm Step three From the Thermolam cut: Thermolam: two 35x42cm
PREPARING THE OUTER SECTIONS
Step one Cut out a 7cm square from the bottom corners of the fabric and Thermolam pieces. Step two Press the Outer and Lining into a paper bag shape. To help with this, mark your two Outers and Lining pieces on the right side (RS) as follows: mark the middle point across the top edge; mark 8cm in from the two long sides, along the top edge; and 8cm in from the outside edges and 1cm up from the cut away bottom corners. Step three To help with positioning your Hook and Loop tape ma
